8th Annual Cinema Eye (2015)

For the 8th Annual event, Cinema Eye welcomed the first annual Honors Lunch, where the Legacy Award was presented to Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning and the Heterodox Award was given to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. At the Awards Ceremony the next evening, Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour took home four awards, becoming the first film in Cinema Eye history to win for Feature, Direction, Editing and Production. The Cinematography Award was shared by Orlando von Einsiedel and Franklin Dow for Virunga and Erik Wilson for Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth, which also won for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ Original Score. Filmmaker Sam Green hosted the awards and presenters included Steve James, Lucy Walker, Alan Berliner, Jonathan Oppenheim, Timothy “Speed” Levitch, Dawn Porter, Albert Maysles and DA Pennebaker.

Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

20,000 Days on Earth

Directed by Iain Forsythe and Jane PollardProduced by Dan Bowen and James Wilson